| Janet Saryadegar |Iran | artist name | region | I have been drawing for over 25 years. While working for the airlines, I attended school to become a professional artist. I graduated last December in Fine Arts and have been actively creating new works ever since. I have created over 100 unique artworks including drawings, paintings, frescos, collages, mosaics, and sculptures. My medium ranges from acrylic, oil, water color, stone, marble, ink, charcoal, paper, and egg-tempera. I have also made over 50 computer illustrations. My genre varies from exact reproduction of old master’s paintings to abstract art. I prefer original work that exceeds boundaries of conventional thought.
Born and raised in Iran and lived in Europe for two years before immigrated into the United States 15 years ago. Traveling abroad has expanded my understanding of art and given an international dimension to my work. | <<type here>> | | Fariah Al Sabti | Iraq | artist name | region | | I’m Iraqi and my name is Fariah Al Sabti. I began my work in 1991 making soft dolls until 1998. After that, in 1998, I began working as a wedding planner with my friend, decorating chocolates for baby showers and wedding showers until 2000. My hobbies include making table cloths and other crafts. | <<type here>> | | Lana | Moldova | artist name | region | I was born in 1980 in the city of Kishinyov, Moldova as one of the six children of Aleksandr and Dina Adzhigirey. We immigrated to the US in 1991, directly to Federal Way, WA. I still reside there with my husband Pavel Melnik. I am currently working as a critical care registered nurse for the Franciscan Health System andpursuing a Masters degree in Nursing Leadership from University of Washington in Tacoma.
I have been sketching and painting since high school. In the last 5 years I've been exploring different mediums such as acrylics and oils. The process of creating my art helps me deal with life changes, stressful situations and express opinions. I am inspired by Vasily Kandinskiyand other modern artists.
| <<type here>> | | Lorenzo Jimenez-Ortiz | Guatemala | artist name | region | | Lorenzo Jimenez-Ortiz is 20 years old, originally from Guatemala. Lorenzo is proud of his Mayan heritage and says that the inspiration for his paintings comes from both the natural beauty of his homeland and the landscapes that he has come to love in his new home. He is an asylee who has been living in the Seattle area for the last 3 years. Lorenzo is currently working towards a technical degree in auto mechanics at Shoreline Community College. | <<type here>> | Poul A. Costinksy| Former USSR
| artist name | region | Poul A. Costinsky was born in former USSR, in city of Lvov, on border with Poland. He finished Lvov’s art school, class of painting, in 1982. Later he moved to Moscow, where he participated in the underground art scene.
In 1998, he moved to Seattle, and inspired by city’s artistic energy, started new series of paintings, which culminated in his first show on American soil, in Pitcairn Scott Gallery, in April 2002. Since then he regularly shows in the gallery and various other venues in Seattle.
At some time, trying to convince public and critics that he is not representative of “bold surrealism from behind Iron Curtain” (from Stranger’s art review, he half jokingly invented new art movement, called polyrealism. It stuck, and now is the name of his web site, http://polyrealism.com.
He mostly paints oil on canvas, but sometimes uses other media like Japanese ink on paper, acrylics, spray paints, and sometimes even a photo camera. His art reflects on human condition in our hectic age, the nature of beauty of body, soul and nature around us.
His art credo comes as a quote from a Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who, once asked how to become a real artist, answered: “if you can help it, don’t”.
Probably Poul just cannot help it. | <<type here>> | | artist name | region | artist name | region | | <<type here>> | <<type here>> |
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